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Topic: Consumption

Labubu at Copenhagen Fashion Week, on August 04, 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark (Edward Berthelot/Getty Images)

2025, the year of overconsumption

Andi Zeisler
A woman arranges cooked meat at an open-front food store. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images)

The sinews between meat and capitalism

Josh Berson
Lauren Greenfield (AP/Getty/Salon)

How the rich are destroying civilization

Keith A. Spencer
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Apple apologizes for slowing phones

Nicole Karlis
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Opening day for Amazon Books, Nov. 3, 2015, in Seattle. (AP/Elaine Thompson)

Amazon Prime expands

Antoaneta Roussi
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Assya Barrette - Alternet
(IFC)

We have irony all wrong

Steven Quartz, Anette Asp
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-102340p1.html'>smit</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

David Sirota
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LEE PETERSON - Fast Company
(Wikimedia)

Joshua Holland - Alternet
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